overplus
Example Sentences
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Each overplus and each deficiency You will make good.
From Italy, the Magic Land by Lilian Whiting
The overplus, which will come to about thirty pounds each, is to be applied for the relief of the widows and orphans of those who have nobly fallen in the action.
From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I by Sir John Ross
They possess indeed two distinct diets; they do not preserve for the period of famine the overplus of the foods which they consume in the period of abundance.
From The Industries of Animals by Frédéric Houssay
When this process is performed with exact attention to chemical laws, so that the acid and alkali completely neutralize each other, leaving no overplus of either, the result is often very 160 palatable.
From Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe
A delay of twenty-four hours in the despatch, after posting, is rendered indispensable by the possibility there is of an overplus of such bulky packages on particular occasions.”
From Cheap Postage by Joshua Leavitt
